Hoary - Latest updates gone screwy?

[Chris Turner]

Hi,

Was wondering if anyone else is having problems with Hoary with latest
release of updates using apt-get upgrade?
I tried this morning and got errors.
Tried again this evening which resulted in some extra packages being
added to the job but still errors the same.
This is on an unmodified bare install of Hoary on a Thinkpad R50 with
only the "Multimedia HOWTO" off the unnoficial forum being added to the
install, and also Totem-xine instead of Totem-gstreamer.
Below is output from console:-

$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
  librdf0 libreadline4
The following packages will be upgraded:
  base-files console-data contact-lookup-applet desktop-file-utils gaim
gamin
  gimp gimp-data gimp-python hal hal-device-manager hotplug libexif10
  libgamin0 libgimp2.0 libgtk2.0-0 libgtk2.0-bin libgtk2.0-common
  libgtk2.0-dbg libgtk2.0-dev libhal-storage0 libhal0 libparted1.6-0
  libreadline5 libselinux1 libxine1 mozilla-firefox openoffice.org
  openoffice.org-bin openoffice.org-l10n-en openoffice.org-mimelnk
  openoffice.org-thesaurus-en-us parted python2.3 python2.3-examples
  python2.3-gdbm python2.3-mpz python2.3-tk synaptic ttf-opensymbol
  ubuntu-base udev xchat xchat-common
44 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 4839kB/124MB of archives.
After unpacking 61.4kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main base-files 3.1.0ubuntu1
[35.1kB]
Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main console-data
2002.12.04dbs-46.1 [1142kB]
Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main gaim 1:1.0.3-1 [3394kB]
Get:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main libparted1.6-0
1.6.11-8ubuntu1 [200kB]
Get:5 http://archive.ubuntu.com hoary/main parted 1.6.11-8ubuntu1
[68.3kB]
Fetched 4839kB in 1m23s (57.9kB/s)
Extracting templates from packages: 100%
Preconfiguring packages ...
Setting up sed (4.1.2-2) ...

No `START-INFO-DIR-ENTRY' and no `This file documents'.
install-info(/usr/share/info/sed.info): unable to determine description
for `dir' entry - giving up
dpkg: error processing sed (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 sed
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)


If anyone would be kind enough to let me know how I may be able to
remedy the above problem be grateful for the help as I dare not reboot
my machine till this is sorted.

TIA,

Chris